Editors' Review

Flipboard: Your News Magazine compiles news, social updates, and all your favorite topics into a gorgeous, easy-to-flip-through magazine. This hugely popular app can change the way you read your favorite content, as well as encourage you to read more.

Pros

Fantastic design: Flipboard: Your News Magazine smartly arranges content into a stylish magazine-style format, so that using it feels like you're reading a sleek virtual magazine. You'll love the image-based front cover, the great flipping effect, and the effortless left-and-right swiping gestures for quick navigation.

Great reading experience: Enjoying your favorite sites and feeds through this beautiful, magazine-themed app is a lot more entertaining than using a standard RSS reader or manually visiting Web pages.

Lets you save favorites: You can save any article or news item and add it to a custom magazine, so that you can easily store all your favorite content in one place and easily review it later. For avid readers, this proves more effective than merely bookmarking content.

Cons

Ads within content: You won't catch any sign of banners or other ads at first, but once you start reading, you'll notice full-page ads integrated into the content, just like they would appear in a conventional magazine.

Requires online access: You can't view saved content or access any of the app's main features offline. Also, if you don't have a good connection, content retrieval (especially for image-based articles) can be slow.

Bottom Line

One of the most visually appealing apps in the Google Play store, Flipboard: Your News Magazine brings you a remarkable reading experience on your smartphone or tablet. You'll just love the way it looks and feels. If you enjoy reading -- whether you prefer news, tutorials and tips, or general articles -- this is a must-have app.

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Publisher's Description

The all-new Flipboard organizes the world's stories, so you can get the best news for all your passions in one place.

Used by millions of people every day, the award-winning Flipboard has been completely redesigned to bring together news, popular stories and conversations around any interest or passion.

There's something for everyone--from photography to productivity, travel to technology, fashion to food. And with everything in one place, reading, collecting, and sharing stories has never been easier...or more beautiful.

Download the app, pick your passions, and Flipboard creates a Smart Magazine for each. Automatically filled with articles from across Flipboard, Smart Magazines blend expert voices, curated sources, and recommended stories to create a beautiful, easy way to keep up on all the news around your interests and passions.

You can also make Custom Magazines. Create a personal or group magazine where you add all your favorite stories or make a Smart Magazine that's customized to include the best content from any source, person, publication, or even hashtag.

As you discover people who share your passions, follow them on Flipboard to see more of what they like or share. All your comments, shares, and likes make Flipboard better for everyone.

Download Flipboard and get started today--it's free!

WITH FLIPBOARD YOU CAN:

NEW: Get quick access your top 9 Smart Magazines in the redesigned Home carousel.

NEW: Create custom Smart Magazines by bundling together sources, people, and even hashtags.

For product updates and the latest from our blog, including tips on how to use Flipboard and interviews with actors, writers, musicians, and more. Follow us on:

www.twitter.com/@flipboard

www.facebook.com/Flipboard

https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipboard-inc-

For videos on how to use Flipboard, visit https://about.flipboard.com/tutorials/.

We'd love to hear what you think about the all-new Flipboard. Reach out to our support team under Settings > Help & Feedback. For any other technical issues or questions, contact us at http://flip.it/support.

Wish I could like Facebook pages and add friends directly on Flipboard. I would also like to follow Tumblr blogs directly from Flipboard. It would be helpful to unlike or unfollow directly from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google+. Pinterest would be a Nice addition.

- Small file size. At 2.68 MB it makes Google Currents look like a bloated cow at 27-ish MB.

Cons

- The flip navigation can get a little old sometimes but it's not bad.

- I can't figure out how to share to anything but Twitter, but that's more just that I haven't made the time to figure out how, still could be a little more seamless.

- I haven't seen anything for caching for offline reading but that could be I just haven't found it yet?

Summary

What else is there to say? Magazine formatted websites made easy. It's fun to use too and doesn't take up all your storage with bloat. It doesn't seem to do caching for offline reading but I don't need that too terribly myself; there may be some that it would be a deal breaker for though.

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